Greyed out option for RUP 1

[sovereign]

Hi, i am trying to create roaming user profiles for my clients. I create the user account in AD, configure the account's profile path, create a folder on the server "c:\ Profiles" and share it, then log on to client machine using the new account. I then copy the Local profile to the server, the directory just mentioned. the only problem is, in "change type" the option for roaming user profiles is greyed out. can somebody please tell me why this is and how to enable it.

thanks

 

[brontosaurus]

what path did you enter for "profile path"?

 

[sovereign]

\\servername\sharename\%username%

 

[brontosaurus]

try something: delete the "local profile" from the server, and just leave the %username% directory. Make sure you have the permission sets correct. Log in as the user on your workstation, then log out. Does a profile get written to the server share? If so, log back in as an admin and copy the local profile to the server profile....

 

[sovereign]

when i log in on the workstation, i get the message "cannot locate roaming your roaming profile"

 

[brontosaurus]

then you may have a connectivity issue, maybe DNS? Can you see the share from the workstation?

 

[sovereign]

I'm sure it is not down to a share issue. I can copy the Profile from Workstation to server with no problems, i just can't seem to download the profile back to the Workstation.
Can you tell me.... other than sharing the profile folder created on the Server, are there any other permissions that have to be set, before the option "roaming profile under "change type" can be edited?

 

[brontosaurus]

I don't think the user needs anything like local admin to do that from the workstation...and as for the server, as long as you've got the share and directory permissions set correctly, that shouldn't be a factor.
You can try the user logon debugger here if you want to get more verbose info:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q221833